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- supported pogroms (organized violence against Jews)
- was an uncompromising anti semitic
- promoted the nobility (who liked him) over the working class and peasants *citizens were becoming angry with him because he wasn't a fair leader, set foundation for people not liking the Czar
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- believed absolute rule should stay in the monarchy *created the Duma, a legislature to try to make his citizens happier
- Bloody Sunday happened during his rule
- he went to war along with his country in WWI
- stayed in war too long, was blamed for Russia's poor performance in the war *one in power when Russians revolt
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- Russia and Japan were at war over territory in Northern China
- Japan was at an advantage because they had more ground troops, and had superior naval forces, had better positioning and control of the sea *Russia began to feel that their government was inefficient, causing a strike, leading to the creation of the Duma
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*was made to boost support for Czar Nicholas because most citizens were not happy with him after Russo-Japanese War and Bloody Sunday
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- 200,000 workers marched peacefully into the Czar's Winter Palace to try to get better working conditions
- the Czar's police fired on the crowd, killing 103,000 *Czar Nicholas II was blamed for Bloody Sunday, causing even more internal conflicts, another reason to make the Duma
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- Czar Nicholas II brought Russia in *Nicholas did not take Russia out of the war early enough, causing more citizens to be unhappy with him *he was also blamed for Russia's poor performance in the war
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-he influenced the Czarina's government decisions which citizens did not like
- was a peasant who became a mystic
- was assassinated by members of the nobility
*the Czar was blamed again for this -
-provisional government set up to replace Czar Nicholas II
*provisional government refuses to pull out of war -
- Bolsheviks are communists and the Red Army *Bolsheviks overthrow government in 1917
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-Cheka are secret police created by Lenin who attacked people who were against the revolution
-Red Army (communists/Bolsheviks led by Leon Trotsky) vs. White Army (conservatives, Allies [US, GB, France])
- Romanovs are killed
* Red Army won, but 5 million were killed and following the war another 5 million died, government controls resources -
-he manipulated his way into power
-by 1928 he is total command of the Communist Party
*later becomes dictator of USSR -
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union *self governing republics were to discourage nationalists
- Communist (Bolshevik) Party holds all power (not true communism)
- Soviet Union exists until 1991
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- sets up competition over his replacement *Joseph Stalin replaces Lenin as leader of Bolsheviks
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*Stalin exiles Trotsky in order to secure his position as head of the Communist Party, later sends someone to kill Trotsky
